by my green candle

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Charles Ruas: Are you working on a novel now?Barthelme: Yes. Interestingly, interesting to me anyhow, writing The Dead Father—and this has never happened to me before—told me, if not what, at least how to begin writing the next one.Judith Sherman: Which is how?Barthelme: I’m not going to tell you, because it’s a secret.Sherman: From whom?Barthelme: From youm.